#878: Install rsync on hackage.haskell.org
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: hackageDB website | Version:
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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I keep a local copy of the HackageDB, which I construct by downloading
archive.tar and 00-index.tar.gz on occasion. This is kind of wasteful of
bandwidth for me and the hackage.haskell.org server.
My proposed solution is to install rsync on hackage.haskell.org in daemon
mode, and configure it to serve the HaskellDB archive (or archive.tar and
00-index.tar.gz). This would allow users to download only the differences
between their local copy and the official repository's copy.
http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/ contains a sample rsync daemon
configuration. It looks relatively straight forward to set up.
Also, I would suggest that the front page's "Getting the Raw Data" section
should contain a sample rsync command line invocation users can use to
differentially mirror the archive.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/878>
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